Limited Footage

After uploading and going through the footage we wanted to keep, and deleting the footage that we didn't need on final cut express, we finally began editing and putting together the effective shots over the ones that didn't fit the criteria of our video, or that weren't as effective as we wanted. This took a few lessons as we kept changing clips around, and cutting clips to fit in time to the track we had chosen. It was frustrating if we had visualized what we wanted that clip to look like visually once edited, but if we didn't like the look of something (which we usually noticed and agreed on) we would change it and experiment with other tools and effects until we all agreed on something that our audience would agree with visually too.

Once our basic video had been lined up, we were ready to add in visual effects to complete the video, but we realized that there wasn't enough footage to last the song, without having to repeat footage we had already previously used. This was highly inconvenient to us as we thought all footage had been filmed and to get hold of our actors again would be difficult as they both led hectic schedules.
We decided to book out a camera there and then and get more filming done as we didn't want our music video to look repetitive or boring in any way. We reviewed our footage and found that there was too many narrative scenes, and not enough performance based shots, which made it look more like a short film than a music video. We found some spare time between us which wasn't hard to decide as we were a group therefore made it easier to co-operate within each other's schedules and filmed more performance based shots.